Abstract:Introduction- It is being debated whether prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening effectively reduces prostate cancer mortality. Some of the uncertainty could be related to deficiencies in the age-based PSA cut-off thresholds used in screening. Methods- Current study considered 2779 men with prostate cancer and 1606 men without a cancer diagnosis, recruited for various studies in New Zealand, US and Taiwan. Association of PSA with demographic, lifestyle, clinical characteristics (for cases), and the al… Show more
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